Profession Quotes · Page 41

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world.…

— Julie Burchill

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

— George W. Bush

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

— Marjo-Riikka Makela

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can…

— Josh Hartnett

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one…

— Erica Jong

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

— Samuel

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

— Wilder Penfield

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it…

— Kevin Spacey

Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and…

— Augustin Thierry

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to…

— Cate Blanchett

Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not…

— Laura Linney

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and…

— Francis Bacon

I've heard people say that maybe we'd be better served had we lost. I was kind of wondering what profession they were…

— Russ Rose

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there…

— Kim Cattrall

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're…

— Anthony Bourdain

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but…

— Robert E. Howard

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became…

— Robert Bateman

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt…

— Ian Frazier

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because…

— David Bowie

This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very…

— Timur Bekmambetov

I think that actresses can be in all different shapes and sizes, but it is a profession, and as an actor, your…

— Rebel Wilson

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the…

— John Gay

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

— Asa Gray

You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world. There's nothing like it.

— Brady Quinn

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

— Jack Welch

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds…

— Catherine Keener

Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a…

— Vivian Gornick

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

— Marcel Proust

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But…

— Diana Gabaldon

I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think…

— Rebecca Hall

Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.

— Seth Godin

I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city…

— Saint John Chrysostom

I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for…

— Stefan Sagmeister

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack…

— Pliny the Younger